Fabricater wrote:
I had the KK long enough it was time to change the oil. I have always done my own work. I started looking for the oil filter and couldn't see it,so I looked on the internet. I find it but can't reach it. I get the filter wrench and get it on and use the wrench handle to turn it off. By now the world is spinning around for me. I get real dizzy laying on my back and get sick at my stomach.After much fiddling I get the oil filter back on. At one point I started laughing at myself for the trouble I was having. I guess it would be much easier if the KK was up in the air on a lift.
You know what helps me alot? Ditching the filter wrench completely and just gripping the filter in my hand with a coarse sand paper. 30 or 40 grit. It's such a tight spot I find those filter wrenches to be a bigger nuisance than assistant.
And don't worry about getting dizzy - I bleed every time.
It is a frustrating filter location for sure.